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Gausman, Arrieta, Treyvon Robinson for David Price in mid July.

The deal would have to be contingent on Price wanting to sign a multi year deal. But it makes perfect sense for the Rays and the Orioles would get a Cy Young TOR arm and finally make use of the MASN revenue. This scenario would be far better than foolishly throwing money at Greinke hoping he maintains consistency. Price is much more of a sure thing and only 27 to Greinke's 29.

If the Shields trade is any indication, it will take double that to get Price at this stage of his arb clock and the price won't go down too much for two years.

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And I think it's plausible that he's a couple mechanical tweaks to his stretch position from being the O's best starter.

Anything's possible, and I'm certainly not ready to drive the guy to the airport, but I think Jake's problems extend beyond stretch mechanics. Namely, locating his fastball, stretch or otherwise.

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And I think it's plausible that he's a couple mechanical tweaks to his stretch position from being the O's best starter.

Do you see any similarities between where Jake's at right now, and where Tillman was before his breakout last season? Because for years, I thought Tillman was doomed - I thought he had a stick-straight fastball, with zippo movement. Something happened last season - don't know what it was. But it brings up another factor - Rick Peterson. Would that make you a little less quick on the trade trigger with these pitchers than before? It would me.

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Nothing new here. The Orioles were known to be shopping young SPs for a bat at the Winter Meetings. No team came close to offering something worth trading our good young SPs for. If this rival GM expects something to change, it seems to me that it would have to be that some team(s) up the ante.

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And I think it's plausible that he's a couple mechanical tweaks to his stretch position from being the O's best starter.

He may not have had enough time to fully get comfortable with what Peterson changed already. Did anyone notice so far if he had kept a similar delivery to that of Tillman's? He had looked very similar last year after working with Peterson. I think his mechanics in the stretch are more mental than anything else. He needs to work on keeping the runner close and locating better with runners on. I never saw anything with him like I did with Matusz that screamed he needed an adjustment. His is all right between the ears, and with that stuff if he gets over it, look out.

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This is complete crap. We didn't hold on to our young starters in the off season to dump them during preseason. The bottom line is that other gms are probably salivating over at least one of them (take your pick depending on the team) and acting like they are failed prospects not worth anything in the hopes they can get them at the lowest value. We didn't make moves over the offseason because young starters with great potential are much more valueable then what we were offered. You sell high, not low and thank God DD knew enough not to treat these guys as if they were not worth much. I fully expect each one of these guys to be in the majors then next 10 years with varying degrees of success. We could hit the jackpot and be sitting on gold or we could get a couple of average starters. But, either way, you don't treat them as throw ins for an average leftfielder or second baseman.

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Rockies could be a potential partner: "Troy Renck of the Denver Post suggests the Rockies will call later on in Spring" http://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2013/02/al-east-notes-britton-posada-yankees.html Rutledge or Chris Nelson could be nice 2B possibilities.

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No big news here. Of course the O's would be willing to move either Britton or Arrieta for the right player in return. Notice that the tweet pretty much says they will look to make a deal not they will give one of these guys away lol

If the right deal is not there they will wait as they have to this point.

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This is complete crap. We didn't hold on to our young starters in the off season to dump them during preseason. The bottom line is that other gms are probably salivating over at least one of them (take your pick depending on the team) and acting like they are failed prospects not worth anything in the hopes they can get them at the lowest value. We didn't make moves over the offseason because young starters with great potential are much more valueable then what we were offered. You sell high, not low and thank God DD knew enough not to treat these guys as if they were not worth much. I fully expect each one of these guys to be in the majors then next 10 years with varying degrees of success. We could hit the jackpot and be sitting on gold or we could get a couple of average starters. But, either way, you don't treat them as throw ins for an average leftfielder or second baseman.

Co-sign. Great post, you captured my feelings precisely.

While I don't think any of us are thrilled with jake's inconsistency this far in his career, trading him for pennies on the dollar in the preseason simply because "we have a plethora of pitchers" would just be a huge mistake.

I'd love to have a second second basemen to plug in when Roberts struggles mightily early in the season, but short of an established stud 2b or at least a solid prospect 2b who can play almost every day in the majors, I do not think trading two of our better young prospects at this point in time for much less than they are worth is a very good idea. At least let a few months play out and see exactly where we are and what we need.

What if we trade arrieta and britton in the preseason for a 2b and then Roberts miraculously rebounds and we are stuck with two playing options for 1 spot and then Hammel gets injured, Chen regressed, Tillman reverts to his old ways or Gonzo's great stretch comes to an end? Any combo of those could happen and then the people who want to drive Arrieta to the airport would be begging for him to come back.

I'd at least let Gausman and Bundy get their feet wet at AAA before we start talking about shipping Jake and Zachary off.

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